From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 20 11:20:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D88A37B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:20:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F8E443E97 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:20:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id gAKJKkBF053247; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:20:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:20:45 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Chris Howells Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <200211201917.gAKJHgW16268@webmail2.liv.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Chris Howells wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday 20 November 2002 5:08 pm, Robert Watson wrote: > > dmesg is a command that dumps the kernel message buffer. You can > redirect > > the output to a file: > > > > dmesg > fileofchoice > > Sure. This bit is sufficiently similar to Linux for me to know it :) > > Problem is, I haven't got 4.7 installed. I want to install 5.0DP2. I > can't install 5.0DP2 due to the reboot, and therefore I can't get to a > command prompt in order to run dmesg.... > > Bit of a chicken & egg situation -- if I could install 5.0Dp2 > successfully, then I wouldn't need to be sending you the output of dmesg > here ;) If you have a second box and a null modem cable, you can set up FreeBSD to use a serial console by unplugging the keyboard. You can then capture the boot output on the second machine and e-mail that out. If it doesn't automatically use the serial console w/o a keyboard, you can do: set console="console" in the loader. By default, it uses 9660bps on com1. This is typically how we capture console debug output such as stack traces, debugger stuff, etc, since it doesn't rely on the system remaining up, and doesn't require you to type a lot of stuff in :-). Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message